River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-12-01
TIE PUBLIC SERVICE
Interesting Reports from Various United
States Officers Work of the Minis Dur
Ing the Near-Inorease of Post-Ohiess-
Recommendations by Postmaster-Gen-
eral Villas Aids. q



Ing the Year-Inerease of Post-Ofiess--
Recommendations by Postmaster-Gen
erai Villas Aids. q
COINAGE STATISTICS
WASHINGTON. Nov 2s. The annual report
Of the Director Of the Mint SAYS the value
OF the gold received at the minis and as
say offices during the year was SOS, 223,-
O72; gold redeposited. $l5, 1913 zoo; silver
deposited and purchased. $47, 756, BIS;
silver deposited $402 II3, OF the gold
deposited, $50. 973. Os7 was OF domestic
production, $22. ST. 1928 of foreign gold
/ bullion. 50, 500. 512 of foreign gold coin,
S5l6, 9s4 OF United States gold coin, ana
80, 269, 219 OF old material The coinage
of the year was: Gold 1924, 100 pieces.
value So, 1913. 279: silver Al. 23l ,2SS
pieces value $34, $3.50, 1873; minor coins.
90, loo, 500 pieces, value 943, $50; value Of
gold bars manufactured, sos, 1SS, 953; sill
Yer bars, So, 4Sl GIL.
The silver bullion purchased for the sill
yer dollar coinage was 90, 433 ,342 standard
odncss, costing $2s, 9sS, 500 The number
of silver dollars made was 33 266, SOL OF
these 10, 90l, 92S were distributed from the
mints and 10, 5O0OOO transferred to the
Treasury. The seignorage on the silver
dollars coined was 81, 923, 55S, and on the
subsidiary silver Ss3I. 7OI
The number OF trade dollars redeemed
under the Redemption act was 1853, 036
The number imported from the passage of
the act to September 4, 1857, was 23O,-
SOL The trade dollars redeemed have all
been transferred to the minis or the
assay office at New York and melted into
bars ready for coinage The loss by abra-
sion was 40 215 20 standard ounces, equiv
alent 70 40. 9 trade-dollaTs II the trade
GOiIgra rndenYnQd ara On nod into bef
silver the profit, exclusive of operative
wastage, will be 1851 574; if coined into
standard silver dollars, 1868, 004
The mint at Philadelphia has been taxed
TO its utmost and the demand for minor
coins is stu far beyond the capacity OF the
mint TO promptly fill the Ordecz
The expenditure for the services of the
minis and assay offices was 81, IS9, SOC
The expenses of the acid refneres was
$l03, S37, against an earning of SLAB 25S.
The total earnings from all sources
amounted to SIS. $40. SO and the total ex-
p3nses and losses of all kinds to 81 49,
/ 432
| The value of gold and silver bars issued
for use in the indus rial arts was s., $780,
| 40 gold and 81, Al, GAG silver.
The director estimates the stock of gold
and silver coins in the United States ON
November 1, 1887, to have BEEN Gold,
| 1914 927, 973; silver dollars, $277, no.
157; subsidiary silver, $75, 75s, 1s6.
THE POSTAL SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S-The annual report
of First Assistant Postmaster-General
4 Stevenson shows that the number of post
offices established during the last fiscal year
was 3,U13 The increase in the whole
number OF pOst-offices was 1883, and
the whole number in operation June
1 80, 1887, was 55, LOT. Appointments
of postmasters were made during
the year as follows On resignations and
commissions expired. 6,S63; on removals
and suspensions 2,3S4 ON deaths Of post
masters, 3S9; establishment of new offices,
/ 3,043 The following seven States had
more than 2, ZOO Offices ON June 80: Penn
svlvania, 4. Ia; New York, 3,24S; Ohio,
9, S34; Virginia, 1885, Illinois, 266; Mis-
souri,, 2 III; North Carolina. 2, 40.
As a result of the annual adius tment OF
( pOstmasters' salaries, which took effect July
1 !. 1887, twenty-five offices of the third
class were reduced TO the fourth class, 8nd
two offices of the fourth class were assigned
to the third class, leaving 2. 1886 Presiden-
tial offices Divided into classes the num-
bers are as follows: First 80; second, 433;
third, 1,Sl9
The number Of money-order offices in op-
Grafton was 7,745, of which 610 were in
| Illinois, 34S in Iowa, 500 in New York, 4e3
in Ohio, 40 in Pennsylvania, 406 in Kan
SIS. 362 in Michigan, S43 in Mi souri, and
326 in Indiana The largest increase in
any State during the fiscal year was 81, in
Kansas
| Among the principal contract articles
consumed by the postal service We're about
399 tons of wrapping Irvine, over 1913, 000,-
900 facing slips over 60, 600, 600 blanks,
/ and nearly 1000, 600 letter heads.
4 The following recommendation are
made: That the deposit of so cents for
each post-office box key be reduced to %
cents; that authority be granted and he
necessary appropriation be made for paying
the rent of third-class post-ofiicez
| The report of the Third Assistant Post
! master General for the fiscal year shows
/ that the total ordinary postal revenue of
! the year was SIS, lis. 273. The revenue
from money-order business was $719,-
1896, making total revenue of $4S,-
/ S37, 500 The total expenditures for
the year, including actual and
estimated outstanding liabilities amount
ed to 500, 1873, 252, showing a de-
/ felt in the revenue Of 81, 295, 643. In ad-
dition to this there was certified TO the
Secretary of the Treasury for credit to the
| P..cifc railroad companies in their ac-
counts with the Government. being the
amount earned by them in carrying the
malls, 81, Isl. OPT. So that the total excess
OF the cost of the postal service over its
revenue was So, 4S2, go
The special delivery system has made
considerable advance during the year, The
| figures indicating an increase of probably
/ 81 per cent over the previous year. The
recommendation is made in connection
with the special-deliyery service that
/ investigation be starred at once to
/ ascertain whether the pneumatic tube
/ system now in successful operation
/ in London, Berlin and Paris, may not
economically be introduced into the great
/ cities of this country for the benefit, no
only of special delivery, but by an enlarged
/ system of tubing for the transmission of
all the great mails between the post-Ofiices
and the various postal and railroad sta
I tions.
/ Attention is called to the sub-agency for
the distribution of postal cards and stampei
/ envelopes established during the year at
/ Chics go The agency has not only worked
( well but it has saved a very considerable
+ amount to the Government Recommended
/ ton is made for two other similar agencies